Hello all, I’m new to the forum so thought I’d start by introducing myself.

Im Robbie and located in Hampshire, I’ve been off and on trying my hand at skinning car parts for a few years but reacently over the past 6 months been concentrating on progressing with the skill and learning new techniques.

I have skinned a few parts on the inside of my car (these can be seen on my instagram drakedog1984) and been happy with the results although I’m having a few problems and what I would call a very high failure rate.

Would anyone be interested in helping me out with a few of my issues so I can continue progressing with the skill as I’m at a huge stopping point right now with resin failing and destroying hrs of work and money in consumables.

Thanks in advance
Robbie

Hi Robbie, welcome to TalkComposites!!

I'm sure we'll be able to help - there's lots of experience on the forum. What issues are you having?

Thanks Rich.

Basically I’m having big problems building up coats of resin.

After wetting out the fabric and letting it fully cure I am trimming the part to the original shape of the part I’m skinning in carbon, from here this is where my project fails.im keying and cleaning the part ready for the top coats of resin, weighing my resin and hardener using jewellery scales I’m measuring to 0.01/0.02 within the xcr mix ratio. I’m then applying resin in thin coats, allowing 2/2.5hrs between coats so the resin is at a tacky stage before applying another coat I’m normally getting 2/3 coats on depending on the time I can spend on the part. Once I’ve left this to cure (24+hrs) I’m attempting to either key for further coats or start to make my way through the grades of paper for a final finish. This is the very point I’m finding I have an issue, it seems the layers of resin I have applied aren’t sticking to each other and a heavy grade (240) will break through the resin creating holes and the coats of resin pealing, if I try and wet sand the resin is turning milky and that’s pretty much the end of the project without standing it all back but with that I have a big risk of sanding through the carbon on high areas.

Like I said this has put me at a real stopping point with my projects and i don’t feel confident at all starting new projects or re trying the projects I have recently failed and need some serious help and advice.

Thanks